Trapper Schoepp is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based musician. Formally the leader of Trapper Schoepp and the Shades. He just released his new album 'Rangers and Valentines' and it has as much an Americana influence as rock and pop. He has many stories to tell and his extended family and ancestors are a large part of the subject matter. The album was produced by Raconteur, Brendon Benson in Nashville. "Talking Girlfriend Blues" is a fun song about sharing all to the driver while hitching to a date, which all goes wrong when he mentions her name.... all done in a similar vein to the old talking blues songs of Guthrie and Dylan. Another song that really stood out for me is "Ogallala". It kind of has a 70s pop sound and is very catchy. But not saccharin, of course - definitely fit for Bitter FM. It's a winter song (timely, as we move towards winter down here) about a road trip through Nebraska and being stuck in Ogallala without much more than a bottle of cold/flu medicine to drink and only The Hobbit on at the movie theatre. It's basically about going out of his mind while waiting for the road to thaw and wishing he had made it to Omaha instead of Ogallala. And yes, the place does exist. It most likely won't be picked up by the Ogallala tourism office.
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